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Boston Globe Article about MIT
Month: April 2024
An Urgent Call from MIT Faculty to Senior Administration: Let the Peaceful Protest Continue and Leave Open Door to Discussions
The following are a selection of anonymized letters from members of MIT Faculty urging President Kornbluth and senior administration to continue to allow the peaceful protest undertaken by our students on the Kresge Lawn and to re-engage in negotiations with students. If the administration wants to end the encampment, we urge them to meet students’…
Al Jazeera Report on MIT
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Students work to maintain peace: A lesson in de-escalation
A NOTE FROM THE ALLIANCE OF CONCERNED FACULTY Since the evening of April 21st when the MIT Scientists Against Genocide encampment at Kresge Lawn was set up, the days and evenings have been filled with a variety of activities, from art and crafting projects, to discussions, to quiet study as students sit and work on…
Statement by MIT Faculty in Support of the Student Encampment on Kresge Lawn
As the Alliance of Concerned Faculty at MIT we support and affirm our students’ right to peaceful political expression and support their rights to free speech. We thus express our support for the students currently staging a peaceful and multi-faith encampment on Kresge Lawn. We invite all MIT teaching faculty – professors, lecturers, instructors and visiting professors…
A Letter to the Media and to Congress from MIT Faculty: How Fear Has Been Weaponized to Suppress Free Speech
Michel DeGraff, Tanalís Padilla, EMAIL THIS PAGE On Monday, March 25th, an excerpt of the below letter was published in The New York Times Letters to the Editor section. We had to significantly edit it in order to meet their length requirements, so we wanted to share our full text with you, our colleagues, in order to continue the conversation…